| bo's'n | n. a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen. |
| boson | n. [ From S. N. Bose, an Indian physicist. ] (Physics) A fundamental particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistical rules, but not the Pauli exclusion principle; the spin value of a boson is always an integer. Examples of bosons are alpha particles, photons, and those nuclei which have an even mass number. [ PJC ] |
| boson | n. See Boatswain. [ Obs. ] |
| boson | (n) any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons |
| 玻色子 | [玻 色 子] boson #155,802 [Add to Longdo] |
| ボソン | [boson] (n) boson [Add to Longdo] |